movies-sample-app

This is an Android app which fetches a sample movies list to display. Built using Kotlin and latest Android tech stack, with an approach to clean architecture.

Functionality

• Search by movie genre and title, with InputFilter/SearchView.
• Request caching for fetching movies sample & images, for 10 minutes. This is implemented with a custom CacheControlInterceptor.
• Portrait/Landscape support - more item rows on landscape, less on portrait.

Technologies & Patterns Used

• MVVM pattern with lifecycle components
• Data binding
• Coil for image loading
• Coroutines for asynchronous calls
• Okhttp3/Retrofit2 for network requests
• Gson for parsing
• Dagger-Hilt for dependency injection & also used in UI (Instrumentation tests)
• Mockito/io.mockk for unit tests
• Timber for logging

Running the app/tests

This project should build & run fine on latest versions of Android Studio IDE. To run tests -

• Unit Tests:
  • ./gradlew testDebugUnitTest and/or ./gradlew testReleaseUnitTest
  • You can also run the com.moviessampleapp test package directly from Android Studio.
• Automation Tests (run with a connected emulator or device):
  • adb shell am instrument -w -r --no-window-animation -e package com.moviessampleapp -e debug false com.moviessampleapp.debug.test/com.moviessampleapp.HiltTestRunner
  • You can also run the com.moviessampleapp.ui androidTest package directly from Android Studio.

Screenshots & Videos

Portrait screen -

Landscape screen -

Short video of the app -

movies-sample-demo.mp4